Marcel Winatschek

The Troll Cave

I was waiting for a battleground queue and got bored, so I loaded World of Warcraft and did some quests to kill time. Nothing serious—save a maiden, defeat her corrupted brother, the usual. After that I was still restless, so I decided to explore. Just wander into the unmapped edges.

Swam west along the coast to see if you could actually reach Silithus that way. After a long stretch of water I spotted flags on the beach and what looked like a windmill. Went in closer and found it completely abandoned. Just an empty outpost with old boats drifting in the shallows. No one anywhere.

Found a cave carved into the cliffs, shaped like a troll’s face. Went inside expecting to find something—anything—but it was dead silent. Empty corridors, no creatures, no NPCs, nothing. Possibly the first person to ever walk through it. Probably not, but it felt that way. In that moment, that cave was just mine.